Nérija

Rosie Turton | Nubya Garcia | Shirley Tetteh | Sheila Maurice-Grey | Lizy Exell | Inga Eichler | Cassie Kinoshi

Three of this septet – Tetteh, Turton and Garcia – were among the Venus Warriors that Courtney Pine introduced at...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2017

Leo Genovese: Argentinosaurus

Esperanza Spalding | Jack DeJohnette | Leo Genovese

Boutique vinyl-only label Newvelle are trying a new subscription model, releasing six albums a year, or ‘seasons’ in the parlance...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: March/2017

Club d'Elf: Live at Club Helsinki

Thomas Workman | Brahim Fribane | Mike Rivard | John Medeski | Duke Levin | Mister Rourke | Dean Johnston

Club d'Elf may be new to jazz ears, but some may punt that in a post-Trump world their all-in-one bucket...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2017

Taupe: Fill up Your Lungs and Bellow

Tyneside-based, Beefheart-influenced guitarist Mike Parr-Burman's pretty compelling skronk-jazz trio (featuring alto-saxophonist Jamie Stockbridge) is reminiscent of album producer Chris Sharkey's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2017

Earprint: Endectomorph Music

Bassist Simón Wilson's quartet is a diversely contemporary amalgamation of leftfield New York jazz, progressive bop, abstract classical and post-rock...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Clark Tracey Quintet: Jubilation

Henry Armburg Jennings | Chris Maddock | Daniel Casimir | Harry Bolt | Clark Tracey

Reliability and consistency are generally not as highly valued by fans as they are by fellow musicians. But Tracey has...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2017

Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz/Legrand Piano

The first of these albums was Legrand's 1958 jazz masterwork with Miles, Trane and Bill Evans among the roll-call, and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

Eve Risser White Desert Orchestra: Les Deux Versants se Regardent

Eivind Lønning | Sylvain Darrifourcq | Sylvaine Helary | Fidel Fourneyron | Fanny Lasfargues | Antonin-Tri Hoang | Julien Desprez | Eve Risser | Sophie Bernado | Benjamin Dousteyssier

Accompanying their hugely impressive international performances at both the Finnish Tampere and London Jazz Festivals at the end of last...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Delfeayo Marsalis and The Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Make America Great Again!

Brice Miller | Phil Sims | Dee-I | Cynthia Liggins Thomas | Delfeayo Marsalis | Kris Berg | Roger Lewis | Herlin Riley | Branford Marsalis | Victor Goines

This arrived in my mailbox just a day after the US election, but the deeper irony is that Marsalis's aim...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2017

John Coltrane: Trane 90

Mal Waldron | Eric Dolphy | Wynton Kelly | Thelonious Monk | Jimmy Cobb | George Russell | Sonny Rollins | Miles Davis | Wilbur Harden | Jimmy Garrison

This well-organised look at the middle decade of Coltrane's career takes its title from the fact that he would have...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2017